A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs. Epicurus
I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give. Diogenes
In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth - often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable. Hypatia
A book may be compared to your neighbor: if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.Rupert Brooke
A boy cannot begin playing ball too early. I might almost say that while he is still creeping on all fours he should have a bouncing rubber ball. Christy Mathewson
A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled. James A.Baldwin
A movie is not a book. If the source material is a book, you cannot be too respectful of the book. All you owe to the book is the spirit. Graham Greene
A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice. Mahatma Gandhi
A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape. Mark Twain